Plastic Litter On An Urban Beach _ A Case Study In Brazil  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Waste Management & Research vol. 27 no. 1 (Feb. 2009), page 93-97.
Topik: solid wastes; beach; belt transect; assessment method; land-based sources: wmr 1105–8
Fulltext: 93.pdf (374.92KB)

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Beaches are subject to solid waste contamination at the strandline. Litter depositional dynamics is influenced by specific beach morphology and sources of solid wastes. The amount of items on the strandline of Boa Viagem beach (Recife, Brazil) was evaluated during dry and rainy seasons of 2005 to characterize their sources and depositional patterns. The strandline was surveyed once a month to count and classify all visible solid waste items within a belt-transect. Plastics were used for detailed analysis of the wastes accumulated. There were quantitative, but not qualitative, differences in litter accumulation during the year and parts of the beach. The main source of debris was land-based. In general, the beach was low-polluted in the dry season and mediumpolluted during the rainy season. The method is a low-cost and highly efficient characterization of solid wastes contamination of urban beaches.

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